Pets we have at home

This week we are talking about pets in school including dogs, cats, kittens, fish, bunnies, etc.  These are all pets that we can keep at home.  Ask your child can you have an elephant for a pet?  No.  Can you have a dog as a pet in your house? Yes.  We had great fun sharing animals and taking them on a short walk around the school.  Our “Pet Parade” was another success!  The students love showing off their favorite stuffed animals to all their friends.

This is our last week to discuss Big and Little; Long and Short; and Tall and Small.  Ask your child to discuss these concepts at home.  These concepts are important in understanding math and learning that length, width and height help us in measuring things around the house.  You can look at the windows in your house and describe them as little and the door in your house is big.  You can also describe this using cups, plates, bowls and flatware in the kitchen while cooking dinner!

We had Ms. Jenkins read us a story in library about different instruments!  It was neat to get to learn all the sounds the violin, piano, drums, guitar, and xylophone make and hear them being played.  We have a book fair coming up soon!  Please plan to participate.  Flyers were sent home with details and information regarding the cost of items that will be seen at the book fair.  This is a great way to start reading over the summer with your little ones.

SAVE THE DATE!

ECS Spring Book Fair- Friday, April 21. 2017- Friday, APRIL 28, 2017- 8AM-3PM

Open Until 7pm on Tuesday, April 25^th.

Visit our Online Book Fair page- http://www.scholastic.com/bf/earlychildhoodschool2

BOOK FAIR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED- SIGN UP AT http://bit.ly/2nZCTZO

Please remember as our numbers increase to always, always, always label your child’s belongings.  We have had several students forget their jacket or snack items.  If they are labeled this makes it so much easier for the students to find their name.

As a reminder, ECS was challenged for each family to collect 25 box tops and send them in during the month of February.  If every student brought in just 25 box tops each, we would collect over 20,000 box tops in just one month, which would be more than $2,000 dollars.  We also encourage everyone to ask extended family to collect them as well.